I love to break stereotypes. I love to leave my mark. I had multiple pitfalls, like many others. I had smallpox right before my 3rd semester of engineering. I scored 7.96 (my highest till then). I again fell sick, to dengue, right before 5th-semester exams. Just one day before Yash Chopra died of dengue. I had to miss 3 out of 6 papers. I scored 8. I was told due to my absence in three papers, I am ineligible for placements. Hurt, I wasn't the man who knew to bend down. I took a project at CMERI and did research for DST. I published an international paper. I entered and won 16th position worldwide in SAE-NASA Collegiate Design Series. By Feb, results of papers I had missed came and I was now eligible luckily for placements. I did what no one had done by far now in my college. I got first placed in TCS. Then I went to grab another placement with Caterpillar, which hadn't picked anyone from my college in last 7 years.
I can tell you, with sheer determination, you can literally tear apart anything in your life. With this confidence in my heart, I am a warrior for sure, if not achiever.
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